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That's fair.

The article smells of vaporware to me, honestly. Much as I'd love to see something like this happen, I'm really cynical about the MMO industry these days and do not really believe it will happen. If the crowdfunding thing happens, I'll probably put down some money, just to register interest if nothing else... but I'm waiting to see before I believe.
Flask extension to gzip your app's responses
Unfortunately, I think you're being judged based on your headline because the site is down. Cached versions are coming up slowly as well.

Are you running on WP? Got a cache plugin installed?
These modern rideservices can expel drivers (from the dispatch-and-payment system) far more effectively than traditional regulations could suppress gypsy cabs.

Policies should be driven by real results and demonstrated harm... not by assuming that the risks/regulatory-tools of decades ago still apply.
One does not simply build a sandbox. A sandbox evolves like an organism to those who inhabit it. It's taken EVE over 10 years to get to it's current level of polish. Good luck to him, but the article reads with too much overconfidence.
No operating system I know of, no matter how many gigabytes of memory you have, can remember more than one copied item at a time. That's ridiculous!

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the functionality he's talking about, but hasn't KDE's Klipper (http://userbase.kde.org/Klipper) and GNOME's Glipper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glipper) solved this problem long ago? I'm sure there are other clipboard managers for other OS'es as well.
Custom design & coding from a legitimate company would cost $1000+: http://deckfoundry.com/pitch-deck-design/

Besides that I am looking for a startup or a few to take free copies to use as a case study / get feedback
Absolutely agree. I prefer the OS X rendering in all of these samples.

On the Gmail screenshot, the capitals look vertically squashed and 'i' and 'l' are almost impossible to discern. The letter shapes improves at title size, but the letter-spacing is either too wide or too tight.
"Thomas Jefferson, the author of our great Constitution, once said, “democracy” will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”" - David Siegel
> I don't see who's harmed as long as guests behave responsibly, which should be ensured by the reputation system.

I agree, but I have a feeling that it won't play out that way in practice.

I would have agreed with you up until about 2 years ago. I've been a home owner for a good 10 years now, we moved a couple of years ago into a new neighbor hood.

Most of hte homes are very nice and well kept up, but the ones that are the most in need of repair are the rentals. And subsequently the houses beside them take a hit in property value.

We know most of the renters and they are nice hard working people who do the upkeep( cut grass, weed flower beds, etc), but the large repair items are always left undone.

the painting, shingling, gutter cleaning, etc. And it makes sense for both parties not to do it. The renters don't care and the home owners don't care about their property values until they sell.

Sadly though having renters in a neighborhood brings down property values. I'm pretty certain that having a high concentration of AirBnB renters would bring down values even more.

So there is harm done, a fair bit of it.
Of the companies mentioned Aereo is clearly the biggest hack.

The regulation that having a single antenna for multiple subscribers is not ok seems to inevitably lead to Aereo's one antenna for each subscriber - and ultimately antenna farms.

Having (someday) millions of redundant antennas in rows to avoid copying signals to meet an outdated regulatory requirement is so hilarious, I'm tempted to call it entrepreneurship as social commentary.
Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell
You're right, and that's what worries me. Part of me knows I should be earning more and doing more interesting things but I am concerned about leaving a decent team for the unknown.

I've been considering asking for a pay rise, yes. Although I'm unsure if they'd be able to even match the market average as that'd be a big jump in both pay and benefits I guess. I always think through what my desired outcome would be before going into meetings like that. In this case, I think what I desire would be too much. Add to that the fact that my boss has pointedly told the team that he hates the 'mercenary' types around SV who are only in it for the money...
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Do you think the grad students in your apartment ever have family to stay? What about friends? What about couchsurfers (if there are any meaningful number of students in your apartment, it's very likely at least one an active couchsurfer)?

Who do you think poses a bigger risk to other tenants, my cousin's friend who's crashing with me in Chicago while he finds a place to stay permanently, or someone with 100 positive reviews on AirBnB? 20 positive reviews on AirBnB? Where do we draw the line on what's ethical here? I think most people wouldn't see any problem with the first scenario but would with the second, but the risk is probably lower in the second scenario.

(Perhaps AirBnB should purchase insurance on behalf of AirBnB landlords. I'm sure they have data on how often these kinds of problems occur and I can't imagine it being too expensive)

EDIT: Looks like they already do have insurance of some kind: https://www.airbnb.com/guarantee
I love Stripe. Really I do.
But until I can accept users from around the world, it seems pretty pointless to use it for a marketplace.
Is The Economist left or right?
Yeah, it was just a prototype to protect live video streaming on Android devices... Performance was pretty bad and so the frame rate was pretty low. I think it would work decently for desktop Flash. JW Player have a HLS plugin for Flash which is pretty good, a lot more fleshed out than my prototype ended up being.

Apple do something similar http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Networ... this approach is more secure than what we de (Restrict access to the manifest file and have Flash request the current key when needed at runtime).
That anyone would grok less word salad resulting from cutesyhood is dubious, bro.
Good for you! But some of us mere mortals who work for other people and have ADD sometimes need a little something to help keep us on track.
> Although I never use the emulator while building Android because it basically does not work on most machines and does not give you any real indication how your code will run on an actual device.

This has not been my experience in the least...
I definitely did not hate it! Thanks for the project and the discussion I found both thought provoking
Isn't it possible to JIT C code with LLVM?
Atwood seems to have a penchant for stating half-baked opinions very forcefully.

Todo systems are not just for important things. They're also for mundane things. A few examples from my own:

- Get the share of that £xxx bill from a housemate.

- Every Tuesday and Friday: Move trash kerbside.

- At least weekly: Process any unopened postal mail I have sitting around.

- At least monthly: Check my online bank and scan for any unexpected transactions.

Why on earth shouldn't things like these be stored and optionally teed up by a system?
Disappointingly uninteresting answers :(
I also saw it a few weeks ago here on HN and was wondering why it is here again... At least I wasn't the only one who thought so ;-)

Sometimes I wonder how old 'news' can be and still climb up to the top of HN. Is there somewhere a search engine which can tell the author if something was on HN already? Or if it is about good websites an not about news, why nobody posted a link to google.com during the last weeks? ;-)
If you want to create a marketplace. your user has to be in the U.S. in order for them to get paid.
Eh, I hate to split hairs here, but I feel like the author of this blog post is being unfairly taken to task for a misleading headline. I disagree with the characterization of the WinUI version of IE being the "mobile version of their browser". It's the only version available on mobile, but WinUI is the default UI when you boot Windows 8, isn't it? That's not rhetorical. I haven't used Windows 8 much, but I did install the beta in a VM, and it booted to Metro (...er Windows UI). When I launched IE, it launched in WinUI, so it's reasonable to assume that mom & pop are going to use IE10 in WinUI at least as much as they do "desktop" mode.

The whole kerfuffle here centers around the ambiguity of the terms in use. It is unfair to take the blog author to task over his language, only to use unclear language in return. Characterizing this as the "mobile version" of the browser is incredibly unclear, considering it's the default on the OS that will ship with desktop and laptop computers.

EDIT: Here's a little matrix I posted further down the page. I think this makes the context a little more clear.

Windows UI | Desktop
(default)
================================+================
Tablet or phone : Affected | N/A
Desktop or laptop: Affected | NOT affected
The Case for Designing – and Writing – by Hand
Canonical asks desktop users to “pay what you think Ubuntu is worth”
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It can be installed. But it's not supported, and Adobe has specifically recommended against doing so, and is telling everyone to uninstall Flash before installing Jellybean. So while sideloading it might work for now, most people probably won't bother. And sooner or later it's going to break, anyway. Meaning anyone who's looking to support a mobile browsing experience on Android needs be thinking of it as a Flash-free zone, on pain of being alienated from their userbase.
Macromedia killed Flash, Adobe has been using the defibrillator for quite some time now.
A simplistic theory -

1) young entrepreneurs have a choice between working in a startup or working in an enterprise, not a hard choice.

2) given that, gradually, people working in enterprises (many of which were startups once) are a bit older, and due to that and are more likely to have kids, family

3) although they have great ideas, they don't have the time, and can't afford the risk of quitting and starting an enterprise 2.0 business.

4) also many people in enterprises are signed on a very rigid no competition agreement, so they need not to work for 1 year or so before starting a startup (which means not getting much money in the first days unless you are lucky)

5) many startup ideas come from your day to day problems, if you work in an enterprise, your ideas will be much different than if you are a student, or work for a startup.

I'm not saying that young people can't have ideas that will disrupt the enterprise world, no, they just don't likely to do so because they don't face the same problems (lucky for them) and because, let's face it, it's boring. it's much nicer to compete with Twitter than with SAP. (and I think a bit easier)

So when we'll see the old, slow, bloated, overpriced software that enterprises are selling fortune 500, banks and such be replaced with cool, faster, cheaper, better UX software like current day startups do?

When the kids of my generation will go to college, or if there will be accelerator programs targeted for working people. until then, majority of exiting startups you'll see will go around photo sharing, bike sharing, startups for web startups (A/B testing, marketing, tools, APIs)

only very few will go and target something like ERP, call center apps, medical records, and all that multi billion dollar market that companies like SAP, IBM, HP, Oracle own.
What you describe is an inefficient system. Learning Korean, Javascript, or welding are projects, not next-actions/todos. I'd keep that on a project list I review as often or inoften as I need to, but usually once a week.

Looking for a Korean tutor, completing that Javascript tutorial, or checking to see if there are welding lessons at the local community college are proper next actions that could be on a todo list.

I suggest looking into a quality system like Getting Things Done. You're on track with some suggestions (using pen and paper to dump tasks and clear up your mind, for example), but could use some refinement.
If you're spending significant time managing task lists, your todo system sucks, and yeah, you're probably better off tossing it out. For some of us who have problems focusing or remembering (and would otherwise waste that time), a todo list is a life saver, and if you really need it, you find or make one that works for you, and works quickly.
The difference is that the building's management company takes responsibility for the typical temporary guests of those who live in the building. AirBnB does not take any responsibility for the guests of AirBnB hosts. Moreover, nothing requires an AirBnB host to only take people with 20+ positive reviews. It's entirely up to the AirBnB host. The host has full control over the decision, even though his decision exposes the rest of us to risk.
This problem has already been solved. I wish people would do a little more searching before starting a kickstarter project.

http://bredacomponents.com/shop/hiddenbed.html
> "fail" is just annoying in a technical discussion

I am sorry but you know what is REALLY annoying? Nit-picking at what must be the atomic level considering the depth and detail of this perfectly brilliant reply.

Technical discussions need a LOT more people like Alexander Yee aka "Mysticial" - and technical discussions sure as hell do not need ANY people like you complaining about the choice of words or slang as long as it is perfectly clear and understandable for the target audience and on that account he more than delivered.
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I think he means built-in to the OS. He probably uses something like the ones you mentioned, as he claims that the "only must-have app I need is a global clipboard history application."
Actually still in Gnome 3... you just need to use the "advanced settings" tool.

[I don't agree with all their choices of what to call an "advanced" setting, but I think it's appropriate classification in this case.]
That was not really my argument at all.

The GGPs point was that by creating incentives to play the game a lot and by that I assume meaning 10+ hours per day you are incentivising what any sane person would class as unhealthy behaviour.

The GP suggested that a balance could be struck and I mentioned what I perceived the difficulties to be.

I am not suggesting dumbing anything down.
Exactly, nobody calls America's Founding Fathers the "Cofounding Fathers" of the nation.
> Whenever I make a todo list, I forget it and find it weeks later with some items completed and the rest have turned unimportant.

I think that's the big problem, your todo lists are too big and too long. Getting Things Done would be a good thing to research.

Here's an example. This Saturday I've got to wrap up a side project. I'm planning on making Saturday a "heavy burn" day, I've got a TON to do.

Saturday morning, from 7:30am - 8:00am I start planning (aka todo list). For the first half hour I'm going to casually wake up, sip coffee and write down everything I want to accomplish IN THAT DAY. It is going to look something like this:

* Complete Add/Remove Users
* Create permissions system
* Create groups-in-groups
* Complete external log-in
* Dinner w/wife
* Park w/daughter
* Read Robopocalypse, have beer, alone time
* Play with sprite map for game (fun-side-project)
* Final payment to credit card
* Call company about tree triming prices
* Talk to Frank about UI changes
* Call parents about Thanksgiving
* Dog needs to be walked

This todo list is useless after Saturday. It includes some things that are part of my larger goals (spending more time by myself without a computer and reading), some high priority items (do work) and some misc things that I know will probably interrupt my day (thanksgiving plans, dog walking). It also has rewards (Dinner w/wife and Park w/daughter). The end result is to shift this around so that I can spend more time doing the four things I WANT to do that day (park, dinner, dog, book) and as little time doing the rest.

So the first thing I'm probably going to do is re-organize this list and from 8:00-8:30 take care of all the 'under 15 minute tasks'

* Final payment to credit card
* Call company about tree triming prices
* Talk to Frank about UI changes
* Call parents about Thanksgiving

Boom. Now all my possible interruptions or 'things in the back of my mind' are done. Now I can lump together the big things.

First I do these three (from 9am-2pm)

* Complete Add/Remove Users
* Create permissions system
* Create groups-in-groups

Then I get to do these

* Park w/daughter
* Dog needs to be walked

Wohoo! I just gave myself a goal to reach by 2pm. After that I get this

* Complete external log-in
* Read Robopocalypse, have beer, alone time
* Dinner w/wife

And later that evening if I still feel up to it this

* Play with sprite map for game (fun-side-project)

Would I do this every day? No. However this is a great way for me to maximise the days that I plan to do a ton of work while still not feeling burnt out. It means I can say by Saturday evening that I 'spent time with my wife, daughter, dog' AND 'read a book by myself' AND 'got a shit-ton of work done'.

Of course. YMMV. I don't see the need to turn todo lists into a Tabs VS Spaces debate where one side is clearly in the wrong. That's what I feel Atwood is doing, and I don't agree with it.
mmm but default mode for Windows 8 is "Windows UI" (Metro). You have to specifically switch to Desktop mode.

You have to wonder how many people will never switch modes...
As my friend tells it, he and his friends have used that single thread as a way to keep in touch for the last 5+ years.
Concat is only called before GA is loaded, so I don't think any race condition could happen.
Am I the last person in the world to see the huge "7" on the nexus7 box?
How long does all of that list management take on Saturday morning?

Edit: In your first hour, you spend 45 minutes writing and rewriting task lists, then spend 15 minutes doing the first tasks on your list? Instead of spending all of that time writing and rewriting the list, why not just do those first tasks? You wouldn't have needed to write and rewrite them.

I believe todo lists give a person the sensation of accomplishment without actually requiring anything get done. It's productivity porn at its worst.
1. The fundamental difference about Uber (that I think is implicit to proponents but gets lost in the actual discussion), is that you're using a well-known public-facing party to request the service in the first place. This has wide ranging benefits for consumer protection (not that it solves everything, but most taxi regulations exist because you've traditionally had to trust the first guy that drives by in a yellow car, or an informally run dispatch station). Specifically in relation to your point, Uber has a strong incentive to make sure drivers are licensed (and if not, their business insurance sure does).

2. Maybe two years ago, I was in the car when my friend got pulled over for driving "without" a license (MA RMV SOP is to suspend licenses without notifying). He passed a clearly visible state trooper (going under speed limit, ofc) stopped two lanes over. Five miles later, he's being pulled over because the trooper had run his plate and saw that the vehicle was owned by someone with a suspended license. Whether it's technology or simply an overabundance of cops, those quaint days of enforcement directed only at drivers that stick out are pretty much over.
Scrum burndown charts and pivotal tracker
Not directly apropos, but the current best answer on that page is probably good enough to have been worth money to NASA, and somebody just did it for free because it was a neat problem to solve and they could.

This is probably my favorite thing about the internet.
Exactly how does Uber reliably "expel" a driver?
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But unless you rigorously enforce the hash=name convention, you can't get its benefits. (Benefits like stability and implicit verification.) And shoehorning the hash into the constrained UUID format hides/confuses the conventions you're committing to.

If you name is a hash, and really needs to be a hash, that should be evident, not squeezed into the bitfields of a 'UUID'.
for sure! i first used git on OSX via Homebrew and i noticed it wasn't the same in Ubuntu... thought i'd share how to make ubuntu's git install just as useful
What's killing Flash is 10 years of buggy, awful software. No other multi-platform VM has had so many performance issues, so many security holes, and so many bugs that significantly degraded the user experience. JavaScript interpreters have never been as terrible as Flash. Java has never been as terrible as Flash. Flash's only claim to fame is its ubiquity. It will not be missed.
They do exist; and the rules basically amount "use a whitelisted DRM solution or don't get our content".

A solution that you believe to be good and secure but that they haven't validated can't be used; and that validation takes significant time and money.

And you can't really force your terms on DRM unless you are Apple - even multinational cable companies (that have been distributing the same content on cable for decades) have the same problems for any IP-based transmission, even for them the content providers have all the trumps, and any changes can be negotiated (paying a lot for removing each restriction) only with the next round of content deals every 3-5 years or so.
Easy on the tag stuffing there, turbo.
You're greatly overestimating the time it takes to interact with a good task management app.
The site gave me fits about needing a newer Silverlight version. I closed the tab.
Last time I configured Infinality I remember the example config file being very well explained about the possible options. Try installing it and reading your /etc/profile.d/infinality-settings.sh
Although this post is nothing related to Hacker News, it's funny. An exception I make by upvoting it.
I can see that that could work on a locked down iOS device but a rooted android phone would surely be able to access to manifest file and make a copy of the keys and stream contents.

After all you only need one device to copy the stream and re-stream DRM free to others.
The fact that someone would complain about the use of the word "fail", on HN no less, should nicely even out whatever faith was restored, unfortunately...
I have done two games. First one made $800. Next one made $25. It just depends.
After all the policy discussion about software patents, many software engineers still don't know how idiotically easy it is to put patents on their resumes. This is a short guide I wrote.

Evil, but that's the point.
[0...9].some (i) -> g in [s[x][i], s[i][y], box i]
returns true iff it finds some i in [0,9) such that given a guess g, g equals either s[x][i] or s[i][y] or box i or in other words it finds a conflict in either a row or column or box for g assuming it g is at s[x][y]
The ! at the start negates it - so the whole method non_conflicting returns true iff g does not conflict with any i.

If Arrays in JavaScript had an "all" reducer it could be written like this:

non_conflicting = (g) -> [0...9].all (i) -> g not in [s[x][i], s[i][y], box i]
Age Demographics of iPhone and Android Users